Average age of patients is rising

I started my career as a gynecologist 17 years ago at the Xuzhou Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province. Since then, there have been many changes in the patients I see. The number of women who find getting pregnant difficult or are infertile has risen rapidly, and the age of my patients has risen, especially since the beginning of the year when the universal two-child policy was adopted.

Before, most of my patients were about 35, but now the average age is about 37 and sometimes I even see patients who are older than 50.

They don't only come from Jiangsu province, but also from neighboring Shandong, Henan and Anhui.